﻿The picture was a screenshot I took from a video my dad took of me feeding the tarpon.

Check out what we did today on the Giga-Pans Post, but also, after our long (yet fun and interesting) day was done I got to do another cool thing. The restaurant that we went to was right beside some docks, and at the docks was an option to feed the tarpon. Naturally, we went to go do this. It was really cool. The tarpon don't have teeth, but they have hard plates in their mouths. They don't have the jaw strength to bite off a finger or limb, though. I got a little scraped by some hungry and excited tarpon, but it was totally worth it. They were really big, and really cool.

That Tarpon is HUGE....looks like he could have squished your hand off. Glad he DIDN'T have teeth!

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Morgan Helmuth

6/28/2014 11:34:33 am

Haha yea. They don't have that much jaw strength thankfully- he just scraped off some skin. :) Like I said, it was totally worth it though. In that moment, I could actually look down into its mouth. Really big and pink. so cool!

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My name is Morgan Helmuth. My dad is Brian Helmuth, and he is part of the team on Mission 31. I will be working as an embedded teen reporter during the mission, and will post about my experiences on this site! :D